04:03 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nUS news pioneer Joseph Wershba, one of the inspirations for the film Good Night and Good Luck, has died aged 90.<\/p>\n
Wershba, whose work helped to end Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witch-hunt for US communists in the 1950s, died of complications from pneumonia, CBS said.<\/p>\n
Robert Downey Jr played Wershba in Good Night and Good Luck, which was nominated for six Oscars in 2006.<\/p>\n
“Joe Wershba was a wonderful man who was a pioneer of broadcast journalism,” said Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News.<\/p>\n
Wershba, a news reporter and producer for the network, led a 1954 report on Mr McCarthy for Edward R Murrow’s TV news show, See It Now.<\/p>\n
The report helped discredit McCarthy, who had falsely accused various celebrities and entertainers of links to communism, including playwright Arthur Miller and film star Charlie Chaplin.<\/p>\n
His accusations ruined many careers.<\/p>\n
Wershba also worked on 1953’s The Milo Radulovich Story, about a reserve officer discharged by the US Air Force because it believed his family had communist sympathies.<\/p>\n
His appeal was denied despite the Air Force providing no evidence.<\/p>\n
Following the CBS investigation, Radulovich was reinstated.<\/p>\n
Wershba is survived by his wife Shirley, a son and daughter and two grand-daughters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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